Posted: 5/27/2025 8:24:09 PM EDT
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Another member told me about this but I think it deserves it's own thread . https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/05/25/bigfoot-in-monroe-county-group-finds-story-from-father-son-to-be-credible/ Report # 78631 (Class A) Submitted by witness Edward Henry on Sunday, May 18, 2025. TODAY: Father and son fisherman have close encounter with a bigfoot half way between Toldeo and Detroit (Show Printer-friendly Version) YEAR: 2025 SEASON: Spring MONTH: May DATE: 18 STATE: Michigan COUNTY: Monroe County LOCATION DETAILS: I-75 to Laplaisance Rd exit, behind the jail near the quarry in the back. [Investigator (MM) Notes: The two witnesses entered and exited this area from where Winchester Street terminates at the railroad bed (west side of railroad) north of Plum Creek. These GPS coordinates are not precise. This GPS point is in the marsh near the railroad tracks but is otherwise off the mark from where the incident occured. At the time of this posting I am still awaiting precise coordinates. I wanted to post this report because the incident happened this morning. This GPS point is definitely in the marsh and near the railroad bed mentioned in this report: 41.900658, -83.389054 ] NEAREST TOWN: Monroe NEAREST ROAD: I75 OBSERVED: I was bow fishing today with my son around 11:30am. We walked down the creek [Plum Creek] past four bridges [railroad bridges] and headed into the marsh. 100 yards into the marsh the dog scared up something that was bedded there. Trees were shaking. We thought it was a group of deer. We continued on 200 more yards to the creek basin in the marsh. We sat and enjoyed the wildlife for a little while. We headed back through cattails and saw a lot of deer beds on the way to the first bridge. We crossed the first bridge and was between that and the second bridge. We heard sirens in the distance. My son said do you hear those? I sat down my bow and arrow to get out my.cell phone and earbuds. I wanted to listen to the police scanner app on my phone to see what was happening. My son was behind me and dog was off to the right. All of a sudden I heard rustling in a tree to the left and a huge thud hitting the ground from the tree. A big heavy animal hit the ground and crouched and start moving towards me through brush. My dog fired off from the right of me toward the creature. The dog almost got to it but the creature shot off extremely fast through trees and brush. The dog chased the creature up the slope and over the train tracks. I then called for my dog to come back. My son said "holy shit what was that?? It was as big as a bear but it looked like a gorilla!" We walked back but we heard something crunching on the ground behind us. We left! OTHER WITNESSES: 2 OTHER STORIES: In 1963 on forward numerous newspaper articles we found TIME AND CONDITIONS: 1130am ENVIRONMENT: Swamp forest railroad tracks Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker: I spoke with Edward and his 12 year old son by phone, separately. Both are credible and freshly descriptive about what happened to them this morning. Edward is 47. He was born and raised in the area. He earns a good living working in the demolition trade. I asked many questions about what they saw, and what the animal did. I asked enough to discern that it was not a bear. It was a large dark furred primate that ran up a slope on two legs looking like a gorilla from behind. Yes, that would be a bigfoot. The animal was roughly 10 feet up the tree when it jumped down. At no time was it facing the two humans. The point at which they got the clearest look at it was when it was ascending the embankment. They could see the hairy back and big butt cheeks pretty clearly for a few seconds. The animal was not on all fours. It raced up the slope on two legs but hunched forward. In its hunched posture it was nearly six feet tall. The son said it would have been much taller if not hunched over. This incident happened so fast that there was no time to even consider trying to photograph it. The whole encounter lasted less than ten seconds from beginning to end. It happened totally by surprise. No one would have gotten a photo of it in that first shock interval. This area around the marsh for Tamarack Creek is full of deer. No hunting is allowed there. Only fishing is allowed there. Consequently there are herds of deer in the marsh and woods year round. There are lots of cattails around this marsh as well.Therefore, two things bigfoots consume, especially in winter: cattails and deer. There are likely other food sources around this marsh as well. The satellite images of this marsh area will prompt some people to say this area would not be accessible to bigfoots because there is too much development around, like the nearby town of Monroe. But this pocket of forest and marsh is not cut off from other green belts and farmlands in the area. The ingress are egress for deer will be along the railroad easements heading south. It is not a long walk south along the railroad tracks from Tamarack Creek to large farm fields that are open and dark at night. Bigfoots will walk along railroad beds for long distances. The railroad beds will sometime bring them into pockets of woods very close to towns, as it this case. Why might bigfoots prefer a large pocket and woods and marsh near a town? The closer a nature pocket is to a town, the greater likelihood that hunting is forbidden there (so the bullets don't travel into the neighborhoods). The area becomes a defacto safe haven for deer herds. Bigfoot look for deer so they will sometimes end up in pockets of woods near towns like Monroe when there is enough plants and animals to sustain them. |
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That’s a bear in a human suit in another bear suit. You can’t fool me. |
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Quoted: A large hominid, somehow in nearly every state, and there's never been an attack on a human, let alone a good picture.  Fisherman and Grandson Attacked by Bigfoot | Terror in the Woods |
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Quoted: The satellite images of this marsh area will prompt some people to say this area would not be accessible to bigfoots because there is too much development around, like the nearby town of Monroe. But this pocket of forest and marsh is not cut off from other green belts and farmlands in the area. The ingress are egress for deer will be along the railroad easements heading south. It is not a long walk south along the railroad tracks from Tamarack Creek to large farm fields that are open and dark at night. Bigfoots will walk along railroad beds for long distances. The railroad beds will sometime bring them into pockets of woods very close to towns, as it this case. Why might bigfoots prefer a large pocket and woods and marsh near a town? The closer a nature pocket is to a town, the greater likelihood that hunting is forbidden there (so the bullets don't travel into the neighborhoods). The area becomes a defacto safe haven for deer herds. Bigfoot look for deer so they will sometimes end up in pockets of woods near towns like Monroe when there is enough plants and animals to sustain them. I love this part. Bigfoot could have been spotted having breakfast at Denny's, and Moneymaker will find a way to say that's not as crazy as you might think. The location is known for bacon and pancakes, two food sources that could provide essential calories for bigfoots, especially during the Michigan winter. The area is a defacto safe haven for bigfoots looking to get out of the weather. |
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Quoted: Where's the pics or video taken by the phone that everybody carries in 2025? I could be wrong, but I've heard legends of these things called "game cameras". I think there's about 18 of them spread throughout North America. Legend has it that people have recorded every other animal on the continent with these mysterious devices, except for big foot. While big foot is stupid enough to hang out near railroad tracks and be spotted by people who conveniently don't have a camera available, big foot is too smart to be caught on a game camera. |
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Quoted: Lol, out fishing and no pics of bigfoot. I will bet a pmag they had pics of the fish they shot. "This incident happened so fast that there was no time to even consider trying to photograph it. The whole encounter lasted less than ten seconds from beginning to end. It happened totally by surprise. No one would have gotten a photo of it in that first shock interval." Investigator Matthew Moneymaker: |
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Quoted: "This incident happened so fast that there was no time to even consider trying to photograph it. The whole encounter lasted less than ten seconds from beginning to end. It happened totally by surprise. No one would have gotten a photo of it in that first shock interval." Investigator Matthew Moneymaker: 10 seconds and a kid wasn't fast enough to take a pic? 10 seconds is enough time for most teenagers to take a video, edit it, and post it to tic toc. |
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Quoted: 10 seconds and a kid wasn't fast enough to take a pic? 10 seconds is enough time for most teenagers to take a video, edit it, and post it to tic toc. It's the shock of seeing it While 10 seconds is enough time I agree to take out a phone and click one two pics . Your mind is still trying to process what your eyes are seeing .Digging your phone out in that short of a time sounds easy in theory but it's not from stories told of encounters with these creatures . |
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Quoted: A large hominid, somehow in nearly every state, and there's never been an attack on a human, let alone a good picture. Lots of attacks on humans that mess with them. They always win any idea how many missing people in the national forest? Also one documented where a guy was found with both arms and a leg ripped off in the 1800s limbs laying nearby. Others too |
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Quoted: Lots of attacks on humans that mess with them. They always win any idea how many missing people in the national forest? Also one documented where a guy was found with both arms and a leg ripped off in the 1800s limbs laying nearby. Others too This came to mind reading your post https://feathersandwhiskey.com/teddy-roosevelt-and-the-montana-incident/ BOOKSHELF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE MONTANA “INCIDENT” BY MICHAEL MAYNOR In 1893, a book was published titled The Wilderness Hunter, written by future president and avid sportsman Theodore Roosevelt. It told of his life and sporting adventures in the American West some eighteen years before becoming president. In the book, one story stands out among the others and it’s one that you might not expect to find in a book written by the future president. The story was told to Roosevelt by a man named Bauman, who was referred to in the text as a “grizzled, weather-beaten old mountain hunter.” There are no other details about Bauman except that he was of German heritage and had lived all his life on the frontier. The old mountain man tells the future president that he and an unnamed partner had planned to trap beaver in a remote section of the Montana wilderness near the Wisdom River (now the Big Hole). Other hunters avoided the area after a trapper’s mutilated body was discovered sometime earlier by a group of miners passing by his camp. Still, the two men were not to be deterred by the stories told of the area and ventured deep into the remote Montana backcountry. There they made a quick lean-to shelter, and with few hours of daylight left, made their way up the river to scout. They returned at dusk to discover their cover destroyed and their belongings scattered around the campsite. Thinking it was a bear, they cleaned up, and Bauman set about making supper. His partner left to investigate some tracks, and what he found could not have been made by a bear, but something that walked upright on two legs like a man; but no man could have left those prints. Bain, G. G., photographer. (1885) Theodore Roosevelt in. , 1885. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress. The trapper returned to camp and told his partner what he discovered. Bauman scoffed at his partner’s concerns, but the man was adamant about his findings. The hunters settled into sleep, but it would not be a restful night. Sometime before dawn, Bauman was awakened by the sound of breaking branches and a foul-smelling odor. He could see a big hulking shape looming in the distance and fired at it with his rifle, but whatever it was fled into the darkness. The two men built up the fire and sat up the rest of the night. The next morning they stayed close together and worked their traps. Later, when they returned to camp, they again found the campsite destroyed. This time, the men built a more significant fire and agreed the next day to leave the area. In the morning, with the sun shining brightly, Bauman and his partner felt a bit foolish for letting their fears get the best of them, and while Bauman gathered the last of the traps, the other hunter returned to camp to make final preparations to leave. When Bauman finally returned, he was greeted by the horrific sight of his partner’s body laid out with a broken neck and bite marks to his throat. Bauman paused only briefly to survey the scene trying to make sense of what had happened, and then, taking only his rifle, he fled the camp, making it to where the horses had been tied. Bauman makes no mention of what he thought the creature was, and Roosevelt does not call it a Bigfoot or a squatch in his book, but it has hallmarks of Bigfoot stories; the foul smell, large hulking body, and the classic large tracks. Bauman was an old man when he told this tale to Roosevelt, and it must have made an impression on him to be included in his book. What do you think Bauman encountered all those years ago in the vast Montana wilderness? |
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Quoted: A large hominid, somehow in nearly every state, and there's never been an attack on a human, let alone a good picture. That part of Michigan is pretty densely populated. I would expect a large wild creature to have been spotted by aircraft, game cams, or have been hit by a car over the decades. |
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Quoted: Lots of attacks on humans that mess with them. They always win any idea how many missing people in the national forest? Also one documented where a guy was found with both arms and a leg ripped off in the 1800s limbs laying nearby. Others too Again, strange how in the most armed nation on Earth not one confirmed kill has been made. Out of all the bigfoot encounters, no shots? No kills? "Not enough time / too surprised" - People have made the shots on surprise bear and cougar attacks. Sometime the animal wins, sometimes the human wins, EXCEPT for Bigfoot, who has a 100% win rate? "Hunter was too ethical / Unwilling to shoot unidentified target" - There's no shortage of hunters who shoot stumps, bushes, and other hunters every year. There's also no shortage of hunters who would shoot anything with fur, from dogs and horses to moose and wolves. The odds of any animal existing on American soil and never once catching a bullet is just beyond fictional. |